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...time she moved to Biot, she had a philosophy about her craft that would make a Cartier or Tiffany wince: "Diamonds have a killing effect on women; you can see the diamonds but not the woman. Good jewelry should have the opposite effect. It ought to remind one of a woman's beauty." She hated the idea of working for rich women who treated jewelry "as an investment or as a sign of their husbands' fortunes...
...Kennedy himself spent up to three hours a day on the telephone, lobbying with Senators against the Byrd amendment. The Democratic Administration received valuable support from Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton, chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee from 1959-61. Morton arose on the Senate floor to remind his Republican colleagues that Dwight Eisenhower had sought, and been refused, just such long-term foreign aid authority in 1957. He cited the words of Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: "Economic development is a long-term process, not an annual event...
...managing partner of San Francisco's huge Podesta-Baldocchi florist firm: "I sometimes ask a friend who has artificial flowers in his home if he has a stuffed dog, too." Paradoxically, the bogus-blossom boom has not yet cut severely into fresh-flower sales. Explains Goeppner: "Artificial flowers remind one to buy fresh flowers." Nevertheless, most flower shops hedge their bets by stocking the phonies. "We never call them artificial flowers," says one florist. "We call them 'permanent' flowers. It sounds better...
People who listen to contemporary classical music don't expect to like everything, or even to understand it. They often merely endure it, and remind themselves that Wagner and Beethoven were considered far out in their day too. Just how much a listener will unquestioningly endure was acknowledged last week by the British Broadcasting Corporation. On its highbrow Third Program, it recently broadcast a musical "composition"' consisting of twelve minutes of random noise -and received no complaints...
...suburbs, raise clerical salaries and finance overseas missions. The mere thought of such desecration gave antiquarian Anglicans the pip: the City's churches-especially Wren's-were national treasures, they cried. The war damage should be repaired, and the churches could be turned into museums to remind traipsing tourists and native agnostics of the Church of England's ancient glory...